"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" Writer Shares First Preview

Baby. Dino.

The next Jurassic World film isn't due to hit theaters until June 2018, but one of the co-writers has come through with an early holiday gift for any dinosaur fans.

Colin Trevorrow, who directed the first Jurassic World and co-wrote the upcoming Fallen Kingdom, took to Twitter earlier this morning to share six glorious seconds of the cutest baby dino that has ever existed since Little Foot. "From our Jurassic family to yours," Colin wrote along with the tweet, tagging costars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.

In the short video, we see Chris's character, Owen Grady, bending down to pet a baby raptor. The tiny dino is hesitant at first, but he soon warms up to Owen, nuzzling his little rator nose against the trainer's hand. And if you listen really carefully, you can actually hear the baby dinosaur purr (or, more likely, growl).

Little is still known about the next film in the Jurassic franchise, although there's been rumors that Fallen Kingdom will feature a brand-new dinosaur called the IndoRaptor, thanks to the fact that Universal reportedly filed licensing rights to acquire the term. As a refresher, the 2015 film centered around the Indominus Rex, meaning that Owen's little raptors could be the next dinos to get the genetically-modified treatment. We'll have to wait a few more months to find out for sure, but this clip will definitely tide us over for a while...and makes us want to own a pet dino, stat.